Heh I was just about to start a thread about this. So these politicians are either retarded or so 2-faced as to be damn near inhuman. If they think for 1 second this law would ever be enacted they are batshit crazy (not putting it past the party of Michelle Bachman) it would be challanged and overturned in any court and every court for as long as they feel like wasting taxpayer money to pursue it. Now if its just a hallow cynical ploy to apease a base that's almost as bad.

(31-07-2014 04:37 PM)Luminon Wrote: America is full of guns, but they're useless, because nobody has the courage to shoot an IRS agent in self-defense

It's getting harder for me to understand how, when people see the useless, inane things politicians spend their time doing, anyone can still believe that government serves any useful function whatever.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb

(03-04-2013 08:43 AM)bbeljefe Wrote: It's getting harder for me to understand how, when people see the useless, inane things politicians spend their time doing, anyone can still believe that government serves any useful function whatever.

Because people aren't base their idea of governments based on a fallacy of composition. With many flaws, the part still In that case doesn't describe the whole.

"Allow there to be a spectrum in all that you see" - Neil Degrasse Tyson

(03-04-2013 08:43 AM)bbeljefe Wrote: It's getting harder for me to understand how, when people see the useless, inane things politicians spend their time doing, anyone can still believe that government serves any useful function whatever.

Because it is still better than any of the alternatives.

(31-07-2014 04:37 PM)Luminon Wrote: America is full of guns, but they're useless, because nobody has the courage to shoot an IRS agent in self-defense

(03-04-2013 08:43 AM)bbeljefe Wrote: It's getting harder for me to understand how, when people see the useless, inane things politicians spend their time doing, anyone can still believe that government serves any useful function whatever.

Because it is still better than any of the alternatives.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb